MISSING SUBJECTS IN ADVERBIAL CLAUSES

Abstract

In this note I would like to point out that both Reuland's 1983 analysis of missing subjects in adverbial clauses and the command constraint on them put forward by Langacker 1969 or Jackendoff 1972 run into serious counterexamples, and furthermore to make clear that the phenomena of missing subjects in adverbial clauses present various types of distributional differences according to what conjunction or which type of predicates (-ing, -ed, or verbless clauses) is used.